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Unfortunately, about 2.5 months ago, my then on-and-off-again girlfriend of almost 2 years and I decided to break up. Also unfortunate, an incident occurred about 3.5 weeks ago which led us to stop communicating altogether. She was my best friend in the area, so the whole scenario was kind of like a double-whammy for me. Working at home all week, not getting out a whole lot, except for on the weekends, has made it difficult to meet new people and make new friends. Due to that, I joined a people-meeting/friend-making/dating type of site by the name of OKCupid. After being on the site for a few weeks, and I have to wonder if all (or at least most) such sites are like this, but I would like to rename this particular site, "OKCupidIsFlaky."

I have to wonder if approximately 89.47% of people on these sites really aren't sure what they're looking for, and their thought-process upon joining is something like this:

"Well, I just broke up with my boyfriend/girlfriend, kind of drifted away from my friends while we were dating, so I kind of feel new to the area again. Maybe I'll join this site. I'm not sure what I'd be looking for exactly, but I mean, if someone cool sends me an email and asks if I want to hang out as a friend, or if someone hot messages me and we click and it turns into something more, or even if an interesting pen pal from a far-off country messages me, then that would work too. At least I'd have someone interesting to write to every few days. I guess I'm just looking to put myself out there again, start talking to new people, maybe meeting new people, and who knows, you know? I sure as hell don't."

Then, anywhere from one day to two weeks later, their thought-process is something like this:

"What am I doing? A couple of cool potential friends wrote me, but, I don't know. A cute guy/gal wrote me too, but eh, I don't know about that either. Some dude from Indonesia even wrote me and seems interesting, but geez, I don't know. I think I'm just going to cancel my account, go to a bar tonight and take my chances there."

Along with a name and some details in order to join these sites, I'm thinking they should add a new question: "Are you flaky?" If the potential member responds with yes, then he or she will be welcomed aboard. However, if he/she responds with no, then they'll have to take their profile ideas elsewhere.
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